Article ID: CBB754801671

The paper technology of confinement: evolving criteria in admission forms (1850–73) (2021)

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This paper investigates the role of admission forms in the regulation of asylum confinement in the second half of the nineteenth century. Taking the Toronto Lunatic Asylum as a case study it traces the evolution of the forms’ content and structure during the first decades of this institution. Admission forms provide important material for understanding the medico-legal assessment of lunacy in a certain jurisdiction. First, they show how the description of insanity depended on a plurality of actors. Second, doctors were not necessarily required to indicate symptoms of derangement. Third, patients’ relatives played a fundamental role in providing clinical information. From an historiographical perspective, this paper invites scholars to consider the function of standardized documents in shaping the written identity of patients.

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Authors & Contributors
Drage, Matthew
Little, Joyce Currie
Włodzimierz Gogołek
Moats, David
Jennifer Bonnell
Shi, Yong
Concepts
Data collection; methods
Information technology
Big data
Paperwork (Office practice)
Technology and society
Psychiatric hospitals
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
Places
Toronto (Ontario)
Canada
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Utrecht (Netherlands)
Prussia (Germany)
France
Institutions
University of Toronto
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